MI Skills Building: Trauma-Informed Care and Person-centered Approach
This session focuses on trauma informed care and how to use a person-centered approach in clinical conversations with UPMC Health Plan members. There will be case study review and opportunity for practice of principles.
Target Audience
RNs / SW / Health Coaches / Dieticians
Learning Objectives
- Describe what trauma informed care is and principles of trauma informed care
- Recognize signs of trauma and how to avoid re-traumatization
- Identify strategies for a person-centered approach in all clinical conversations
Program begins at 1:30pm and adjourns at 3:30pm Total Education Time: 2 Hours
Time | Content | Presenter |
1:30-2pm | Define and discuss what is meant by trauma informed care as well as the principles of trauma informed care | Michael Connell, MS Indira Stokes, MPH, CHES, NBC-HWC |
2-2:30pm | Recognize signs of trauma and how to avoid re-traumatization | Michael Connell, MS Indira Stokes, MPH, CHES, NBC-HWC |
2:30-3pm | Identify strategies for a person-centered approach in all clinical conversations | Michael Connell, MS Indira Stokes, MPH, CHES, NBC-HWC |
3-3:30-pm | Apply & Practice skills learned in culminating activity | Michael Connell, MS Indira Stokes, MPH, CHES, NBC-HWC |
Renee Greenwald is a Quality Assurance Coordinator at UPMC Health Plan where she is responsible for training, empowering, and the skill development of health coaches and care managers. She has a bachelor’s in Exercise Science from Slippery Rock University and a master’s in Exercise Science and Health Promotion, specializing in wellness and fitness and wellness coaching from California University of Pennsylvania. Renee is a Nationally Board-Certified Health and Wellness Coach with about 5 years’ experience in health coaching.
CCM CE will be provided: 2 CE - CCM COA will be sent via email from UPMC Health Plan nurse planner
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, University of Pittsburgh is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. University of Pittsburgh maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 2 continuing education credits.
Available Credit
- 2.00 ANCCUPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
- 2.00 ASWB
- 2.00 Attendance